A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.7978 East, latitude -17.4032 South, depth = 40.826 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:15:14 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q3qq. Unique identifier: us6000q3qq. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/03/25 / 2025-03-25 04:15:14 / March 25, 2025 @ 4:15 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.826 km (25 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (41 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 66 km NW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.
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